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Krowd Customer Agreement

This Agreement explains how our core platform terms apply across all Krowd services, and where additional product-specific terms apply. If there is a conflict, the product-specific section for that service takes precedence.

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Overview

These Terms govern your access to and use of Krowd services (the “Services”). They are written to cover both individual users on free plans (including House Krowd Free) and organisations on paid plans across House Krowd, Signals, Krowd Source, Insights, and future Krowd products.

By accessing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you use the Services for an organisation, you confirm you have authority to accept these Terms on that organisation’s behalf.

Plain-English note

We’ve structured this as one terms framework for both free and paid use. If you are on a free plan, these Terms apply without an Order Form. If you are on a paid/business plan, your Order Form adds commercial details (products, plan, term, fees).

Definitions

“Agreement” means these Krowd Terms, including any applicable product-specific terms, Order Forms (if any), and referenced documents.

“Customer” or “User” (or “you”) means the individual or organisation using the Services under these Terms.

“Order Form” means an ordering document, online checkout, statement of work, or other ordering flow for paid Services that references these Terms and describes the Services purchased.

“Services” means Krowd hosted software services and related support, documentation, and updates.

“Customer Data” means data, content, files, media, or other information submitted to, connected to, generated within, or otherwise processed through the Services by or on behalf of Customer, including by End Users.

“Provenance Record” means machine-readable information maintained by the Services concerning the source, timing, context, configuration, selection, declarations, consent or authority, transmission, disclosure, or other lifecycle events associated with data, an opportunity, or a transaction.

“End User” means an individual authorised by Customer to use the Services, including employees, contractors, partners, and invited collaborators.

“Confidential Information” means non-public information disclosed by a party to the other party that is marked or should reasonably be understood as confidential.

“Documentation” means user guides, technical documentation, and knowledge-base materials we make available for the Services.

Plans, Purchases, and Scope

If you use a free plan (including House Krowd Free), these Terms apply directly and no Order Form is required. If you purchase a paid plan, your Order Form describes the Services purchased, including applicable plans, feature sets, usage limits, subscription term, and fees.

If you purchase multiple Services, each purchase may be listed on one or more Order Forms. Unless otherwise stated, all Order Forms are governed by these Terms.

  • Affiliates: Your affiliated entities may use the Services under your account if permitted by the plan, provided you remain responsible for their compliance.
  • Usage limits: The Services may include limits (e.g., seats, storage, workspaces, message volumes). We may enforce these limits or require an upgrade where limits are exceeded.
  • Trials and betas: Trials and beta features may be offered separately and can include additional terms or restrictions.

Accounts and Administration

You are responsible for (a) ensuring End Users comply with these Terms, and (b) all activity that occurs under your accounts.

  • Admin controls: Certain End Users may be designated as administrators and can manage access, permissions, configurations, and data connections.
  • Credentials: End Users must keep login credentials confidential. Customer must promptly notify us of suspected unauthorised access.
  • Legal authority: You represent you have authority to bind the Customer to this Agreement.

Admin responsibility

If you add external collaborators (partners, contractors, or community moderators), treat them like privileged access: least-privilege roles, time-bound permissions, and clear offboarding.

Acceptable Use

You may use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with this Agreement. You will not, and will not permit End Users to:

  • access, use, or share the Services in a way that violates applicable laws or regulations;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Services, accounts, or related systems;
  • probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services without our prior written authorisation;
  • interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services (including denial-of-service, load testing without approval, or abusive automation);
  • reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the Services, except to the extent such restrictions are prohibited by law;
  • upload or transmit malware, harmful code, or content that is illegal, infringing, or unlawfully discriminatory; or
  • use the Services to send spam or to engage in deceptive, misleading, or abusive outreach.

We may suspend or limit access to protect the Services, Customer, End Users, or third parties where we reasonably believe there is a violation of this section.

Customer Data and Content

As between the parties, Customer retains ownership of Customer Data. Customer grants Krowd a limited, non-exclusive license to host, copy, transmit, display, and process Customer Data only as necessary to provide and improve the Services, support Customer, and meet legal obligations.

You represent and warrant that you have a lawful basis and all necessary rights, permissions, notices, consents, and other authority required to collect, upload, connect, enrich, match, analyse, use, disclose, export, and otherwise process Customer Data for each purpose for which you configure the Services.

  • Responsibility: You are responsible for Customer Data, including its accuracy, legality, provenance, and how you obtain and use it.
  • Purpose and minimisation: You are responsible for ensuring that Customer Data and each configured workflow are appropriate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the stated purpose.
  • Content controls: You are responsible for configuring your workspaces, permissions, retention settings, field-level sharing, listeners, destinations, and other controls to align with your internal policies and compliance needs.
  • Exports and disclosures: You must only configure an export or disclosure of personal data where you have established an applicable lawful basis and any consent, request, authority, permission, notice, or other condition required for the relevant purpose and recipient. A technical ability to export data does not itself authorise disclosure.

User-generated content

If you enable public or community submission flows, you should implement clear participant notices, moderation processes, and escalation routes for safeguarding and abuse reports.

Regulated Campaigns, Referrals and Data Provenance

Signals and other Krowd Services may be used to configure campaigns, cohorts, referrals, introductions, listeners, exports, and integrations. Where your organisation is subject to professional or sector-specific rules, you remain responsible for determining whether each proposed use complies with the rules that apply to you.

  • Acquisition and outreach: You are responsible for ensuring that campaign selection, outreach, advertising, client acquisition, referrals, introductions, and fee-sharing arrangements comply with applicable law, professional rules, and direct-marketing requirements.
  • No circumvention: You must not use Krowd, House Krowd, Signals, another Krowd service, or any third party to carry out activity that you would be prohibited from carrying out directly.
  • Selection criteria: You are responsible for the lawfulness and regulatory appropriateness of criteria used to select properties, individuals, cohorts, recipients, or opportunities. Feature availability does not amount to regulatory approval of a particular selection method.
  • Resident or participant choice: Where a workflow involves legal, financial, housing, health, or other regulated or sensitive services, you must not configure or present the workflow in a way that falsely represents a person's request, consent, provider choice, authority, or instructions.
  • Receiving provider checks: A referral, introduction, event, listener match, or export does not itself establish a professional relationship. The receiving provider remains responsible for conflicts, eligibility, onboarding, client-care, professional conduct, and other regulatory checks applicable to it.
  • Failed delivery and rerouting: A failed or rejected technical delivery does not, by itself, authorise disclosure to a different recipient. Any retry or rerouting must remain within the person's recorded instructions, permissions, provider choices, and other applicable legal or regulatory conditions.
  • Provenance: The Services may create and retain Provenance Records showing source, timestamps, campaign or cohort configuration, selection criteria, declarations, consent or authority, provider choice, transmission, delivery, and disclosure events. You must not knowingly alter, suppress, or misrepresent these records to obscure how an opportunity or transaction arose.
  • Audit and evidence: Subject to applicable law and our data-protection obligations, Provenance Records may be used to investigate incidents, resolve disputes, demonstrate platform operation, support audits, and evidence the acquisition and disclosure journey.

Regulated use is a shared control environment

Krowd provides governed infrastructure, configurable controls, and machine-readable provenance. Those controls do not replace your own legal, professional, compliance, or client-onboarding responsibilities.

Model-Assisted Features

Some features may use statistical or model-assisted techniques (including machine learning) to generate summaries, classify content, detect patterns, or propose next actions. These outputs are informational and may be probabilistic.

  • Human review: You are responsible for reviewing outputs before relying on them for operational, legal, safeguarding, or compliance decisions.
  • Output variability: Outputs may change based on input data, configuration, model updates, and feature changes.
  • Restricted inputs: You must not submit content that you are not authorised to share or that is unlawful to process. Where special category or sensitive data is involved, you must ensure you have a lawful basis and appropriate safeguards.

Security

We maintain technical and organisational measures designed to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of the Services and Customer Data, taking into account the nature of the Services and the risks presented.

  • We may implement security updates, patches, and changes to improve platform resilience.
  • You are responsible for secure configuration choices you control (e.g., user access, sharing settings, API keys, SSO configuration, and device security).
  • If we become aware of a confirmed security incident affecting Customer Data, we will provide notice consistent with applicable law and our incident response processes.

Privacy and Data Protection

The parties' data-protection roles may differ by workflow and category of personal data. Where Krowd processes personal data on behalf of Customer, processing will be governed by the applicable Data Processing Addendum (DPA) and the privacy information provided during onboarding. Where Krowd determines purposes and means of processing independently, it may act as a controller for that processing.

  • Customer is responsible for determining its lawful basis for processing personal data, and for providing appropriate notices to individuals for processing it controls.
  • Customer will ensure it has the necessary rights, authority, and consents (if applicable) to provide, connect, disclose, or instruct Krowd to process personal data for the configured purpose.
  • Where Customer determines the recipient, purpose, or scope of a disclosure or export, Customer is responsible for ensuring that disclosure is lawful and consistent with the individual's recorded choices, permissions, and notices.
  • Customer is responsible for responding to data subject requests for processing it controls, with Krowd providing reasonable assistance where required by law and consistent with the Services.

Fees, Billing, and Renewal

House Krowd Free has no subscription fee. For paid plans, fees, billing frequency, and renewal terms are set out in your Order Form. Unless otherwise stated, paid subscriptions renew automatically for successive terms of the same length as the initial term.

  • Taxes: Fees are exclusive of applicable taxes, duties, or levies, unless stated otherwise.
  • Non-payment: We may suspend Services for overdue amounts after reasonable notice, except where prohibited by law.
  • Refunds: Fees are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated in an Order Form.

Usage changes

If you exceed usage limits (like storage, seats, or message volume), we may require an upgrade, charge overage fees where the plan supports it, or apply technical limits to protect the platform.

Support and Service Levels

We provide support as described in the applicable plan or Order Form. Support may include knowledge-base access, email-based support, and incident response for service availability issues.

  • Planned maintenance may occur from time to time. We aim to minimise impact and provide notice where reasonably practicable.
  • Service levels, uptime commitments, or service credits (if any) must be set out in your Order Form or a separate SLA to apply.

Intellectual Property

Krowd and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Services, Documentation, and all related intellectual property. Except for the rights expressly granted in this Agreement, no rights are granted by implication or otherwise.

  • Customer may use the Documentation solely in connection with its authorised use of the Services.
  • Customer retains all rights in Customer Data, subject to the limited license granted to Krowd to provide the Services.

Confidentiality

Each party may disclose Confidential Information to the other in connection with this Agreement. The receiving party will protect the disclosing party’s Confidential Information using reasonable care and will use it only to perform under this Agreement.

  • Confidential Information does not include information that is publicly available through no fault of the receiving party, independently developed, or rightfully received from a third party without confidentiality obligations.
  • The receiving party may disclose Confidential Information if required by law, provided it gives notice (where legally permitted) and cooperates in seeking confidential treatment.

Third-Party Services

The Services may interoperate with or include functionality that depends on third-party services (for example, messaging providers, analytics tools, identity providers, or map services). Your use of such third-party services may be governed by their separate terms.

  • We are not responsible for third-party services and do not warrant their availability, security, or performance.
  • If you enable an integration, you authorise Krowd to exchange Customer Data with the relevant third party as needed to provide the integration.

Suspension and Termination

Either party may terminate this Agreement (or an applicable Order Form) for material breach if the breach is not cured within 30 days after written notice.

We may suspend access to the Services, or suspend or disable a particular campaign, listener, export destination, integration, workflow, or other configuration, if we reasonably believe (a) there is a security risk, (b) your use violates the Acceptable Use section or the Regulated Campaigns, Referrals and Data Provenance section, (c) the configuration may result in unlawful or unauthorised processing or disclosure, (d) it may breach recorded consent, authority, provider choice, or other platform safeguards, or (e) we are required to do so by law or a competent regulator. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to limit any suspension to the minimum necessary.

  • Effect of termination: Upon termination, Customer’s right to access the Services ends. We will make Customer Data available for export for a limited period, subject to plan capabilities and reasonable technical constraints.
  • Survival: Sections intended to survive termination (including confidentiality, IP, liability limits, and payment obligations accrued) will survive.

Warranties and Disclaimers

We warrant that we will provide the Services in a professional and workmanlike manner consistent with generally accepted industry standards.

Except as expressly stated in this Agreement, the Services are provided “as is” and we disclaim all warranties to the maximum extent permitted by law, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Decision-support disclaimer

The Services may help you organise evidence, manage workflows, and detect patterns—but they don’t replace professional judgement, legal advice, safeguarding assessments, or statutory decision-making.

Limitation of Liability

Nothing in this Agreement excludes or limits either party’s liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by negligence, (b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or (c) any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

Subject to the above, neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, or data, arising out of or related to this Agreement.

Subject to the above, each party’s aggregate liability arising out of or related to this Agreement will not exceed the total fees paid or payable by Customer for the applicable Services in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Indemnities

Customer will indemnify and hold harmless Krowd from claims, damages, and expenses arising out of or related to Customer Data or Customer’s misuse of the Services, including any claim that Customer Data infringes or violates a third party’s rights.

Krowd will defend Customer from claims that the Services (excluding Customer Data and third-party services) infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights, and indemnify Customer from damages finally awarded, provided Customer promptly notifies Krowd and cooperates in the defence.

Product-Specific Terms

The terms in this section apply in addition to the core platform terms above. If there is a conflict, the product-specific terms for that product take precedence.

House Krowd

House Krowd supports resident-first property reporting, collaborative case resolution, and auditable evidence trails across councils, providers, and delivery partners.

  • House Krowd records, timelines, and status views are workflow tools to support triage and coordination; they do not replace your statutory duties, tenancy obligations, safeguarding responsibilities, or professional judgment.
  • You are responsible for validating the accuracy of resident-submitted information before using it for enforcement, eligibility, legal, or funding decisions, and for maintaining fair and documented review processes.
  • If you invite contractors, managing agents, or other third parties into House Krowd workspaces, you remain responsible for role-based access, least-privilege permissions, and prompt deprovisioning when access is no longer required.
  • Where House Krowd is used to evidence remediation, compliance, or funding claims, you are responsible for ensuring supporting files, timestamps, and sign-off records meet your internal and external audit requirements.
  • Any alerts, prioritisation cues, or model-assisted recommendations in House Krowd are informational and should be reviewed by appropriately qualified personnel before action is taken.

Signals

Signals provides governed asset intelligence, workflow, event routing, campaign and cohort configuration, evidence provenance, integrations, and structured decision-support across property, resident, and organisational data.

  • Signals outputs are decision-support materials. You remain responsible for decisions made using Signals, including whether and how to operationalise outputs.
  • You are responsible for ensuring that any source data you upload or connect is lawful, accurate, up-to-date, and does not infringe third-party rights (including confidentiality, database rights, and copyright).
  • Where you configure campaigns, cohorts, listeners, referrals, introductions, outreach, exports, or other workflows, you are responsible for the lawfulness and regulatory appropriateness of the selection criteria, configuration, content, and intended recipient. The availability of a feature, filter, workflow, or integration does not constitute confirmation by Krowd that its use is lawful or compliant for your particular purpose.
  • If you are subject to professional or sector-specific regulation, you are responsible for determining whether your use of Signals complies with applicable professional conduct, client-acquisition, advertising, referral, fee-sharing, financial-promotion, direct-marketing, data-protection, and other sector requirements.
  • You must not use Krowd, Signals, House Krowd, or another third party to undertake marketing, client acquisition, referral, or introduction activity that you would be prohibited from undertaking directly.
  • Where Signals records source, campaign, selection criteria, declarations, consent or authority, provider choice, transmission, or disclosure events, you must not knowingly alter, suppress, or misrepresent those records in a way that obscures the provenance of an opportunity or transaction.
  • An event, opportunity, listener match, referral, introduction, or successful export does not itself establish a solicitor-client, adviser-client, or other regulated professional relationship. Receiving organisations remain responsible for their own onboarding, conflicts, eligibility, professional conduct, and regulatory checks.
  • If you connect Signals to external systems (e.g., CRMs, case-management systems, ticketing, BI tools, or webhook/SFTP destinations), you are responsible for configuration, authorising the transfer, validating the recipient and field set, and validating the integrity of data transferred through those integrations.
  • Signals may use model-assisted analysis (including classification, clustering, summarisation, and anomaly detection). Model outputs can vary over time as underlying models change, new data is introduced, or configurations are updated.
  • Where Signals provides confidence indicators, scores, or risk labels, these are informational only and are not guarantees or determinations of compliance, liability, eligibility, or legal status.

Krowd Source

Krowd Source enables resident feedback, local engagement, programme pulse checks, and moderated submissions linked to assets and places.

  • You must provide clear participant notices when collecting personal information through Krowd Source forms or outreach flows, including your lawful basis for processing and how participants can exercise their rights.
  • If you make submissions public, you are responsible for moderation and safeguarding, including policies covering harassment, hate speech, defamation, illegal content, and personal data minimisation.
  • You are responsible for obtaining any required consents for media, testimonials, or participant quotes, and for ensuring you have appropriate permissions to publish or share them.
  • Where Krowd Source supports messaging or outreach features, you are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary permissions, opt-ins, and compliance processes (e.g., PECR, GDPR, and platform policies) to contact participants.
  • You must not use Krowd Source to collect special category data unless you have an appropriate lawful basis and safeguards, and you have configured the service to support minimisation and access controls for such data.

Insights

Insights converts operational, asset, and resident data into forecasting, portfolio risk views, and board-ready reporting for housing, retrofit, and compliance programmes.

  • Insights outputs (including forecasts, scores, and scenario views) are probabilistic and informational; they are not guarantees of outcomes, savings, compliance, or asset performance.
  • You are responsible for data quality and provenance in Insights, including reconciling source systems, managing refresh cadence, and understanding how missing or delayed data may affect results.
  • Where Insights is used for budgeting, programme planning, or regulatory submissions, you must apply appropriate human review, governance controls, and versioning before relying on generated outputs.
  • Benchmarks, segmentations, and comparisons in Insights may rely on configured assumptions and available datasets; you are responsible for validating suitability for your specific operating context.
  • If Insights recommendations are operationalised through third-party tools or internal workflows, you remain responsible for implementation decisions, change management, and downstream impacts.

Changes to the Agreement

We may update this Agreement to reflect changes in the Services, legal requirements, or security and operational practices. If changes are materially adverse, we will provide reasonable notice via the Services, email, or your account admin channels.

Continued use of the Services after the effective date of an updated Agreement constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not agree, you may discontinue use or terminate in accordance with your Order Form.

Miscellaneous

  • Assignment: Neither party may assign this Agreement without the other party’s prior written consent, except to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, reorganisation, or sale of substantially all assets.
  • Force majeure: Neither party will be liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond reasonable control.
  • Entire agreement: This Agreement and applicable Order Forms constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Services.
  • Severability: If any provision is unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect.

Contact

Questions about these terms can be sent to legal@krowd.org.uk. For sales or contract changes, use our contact page.

If you need product-specific addenda

If you’re contracting with a public-sector procurement pack, require an SLA, or need a DPA signed as part of onboarding, email legal and include your organisation name plus the products you’re deploying (House Krowd / Signals / Insights).